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The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Attached Betrayed Depend Heart
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
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Humiliated Sin True Value
As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.
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Fault Long Way
Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
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God More Trust Wish
A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
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Heart Men Real
As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone’s tounge can tell you about his heart.
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Heart Spoons Taste
Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away from the worldly life and people.
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Life Losing People Worldly
Wait until you come on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract.
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Contact Discover Injustice Wait
A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
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Giving Heart Taste
And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.
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Loses Slave Substitutes
When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.
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Hands Order Tests
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Found Heart Perfection
If a man’s patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal.
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Angel Animal Sex
Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
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Giving Society Women